13.3 years of HDTV content. That's approximately 58,292 movies, which means an equal number of large pizzas. So one petabyte equals 52 tonnes of pepperoni pizza. Yes, my head has assploded. For other equivalents, click and zoom in.

Computers are getting smaller, hard drives are getting cheaper, and processors are getting faster — but that doesn't mean we no longer have computers so huge that they fill entire floors of a building. It just means that when computers do fill an entire floor, they are crunching a shitload more data than they would…

Recently green-lit to be built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM's future Blue Waters supercomputer is peta'd all over. It'll have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte of memory and a 10 petabyte disk storage system. It'll also have more than 200,000 processor cores, and cost…